London: Engravings printed by Boydell for the publishers Strahan and Cadell, 1777.

Large folio atlas, with the full complement of 64 charts and plates published to accompany the voyage account and two extras (see below), some folding, the smaller plates mounted to size; in a very good modern quarter calf...

A Lausanne: chez Marc-Mic. Bousquet, 1756.

Four volumes, quarto; contemporary speckled calf, gilt backs with raised bands, contrasting spine labels with gilt lettering, with gilt stamped coat-of-arms arms at foot of spine encircled by the text 'Monstrant regibus astra viam'.

De la Rochefoucauld's copy of a de luxe issue, with...

London: W. Bulmer and Co., 1802.

Quarto, 19 pp. and four large folding plates; contemporary (? original) neat quarter red roan binding.

The earliest scientific notice of the echidna, in a special author's pre-issue

England: circa 1795-1800.

Pastel on paper backed onto linen 62 x 50cm; in the original gilt frame and glass.

An unrecorded version of Banks's favourite portrait, by the daughter of a friend

South America: 7 January 1832.

Original watercolour, 85 x 390mm., inscribed "Point Naga S.65.W. H.M.S Beagle Jan 7 1832" lower left; "Spirito Santo 3.20 distant 5 miles" lower centre; on verso inscribed "Fanny 1836"; backed on tissue and mounted.

Original panorama from the Beagle voyage

Avignon and Paris: Froulle, 1779.

Octavo, with an engraved frontispiece view of Tahiti; a fine copy in contemporary speckled half calf.

The earliest separate serious work on Tahiti

Timor: during the expedition of the Uranie, 1818.

Fine watercolour, the image 198 x 265 mm., on laid paper; pencil note "Mr. Arago" in Freycinet's later hand at bottom left; framed.

Beautiful original sketch drawn on the Uranie expedition by Freycinet's official artist

London: Printed & Sold by Carington Bowles, Published as the Act directs, 24 June 1779.

Handcoloured engraving, 360 x 505 mm. in fine original condition, mounted and framed.

Convict Hulks on the Thames

Edinburgh: Lizars; and London, Bohn, 1835 to 1866.

Complete set of 40 volumes, small octavo, each volume with portrait frontispiece & engraved and printed title-page to each volume, and some 1248 handcoloured engraved plates (see note below), making a total of 1328 plates; in a fine nineteenth-century half calf binding...

Dunedin: New Zealand Institute, 1896.

Large quarto, profusely illustrated throughout (including seven special plates printed in black and red), a very attractive copy in original half morocco binding.

The original Maori design source-book

London: M. Clark for H. Faithorne, 1686-1688-, 1704.

Three volumes, folio; a handsome set in contemporary calf, banded spine gilt with double red morocco labels.

With a description of Dampier's west Australian plants

Melbourne: c.1880.

Watercolour on paper, 355 x 540mm, mounted and framed; signed lower right.

The Yarra River in Dawn Light.

London: 1773-1784.

Together eight volumes, quarto, and two folio Atlases; uniformly bound in contemporary polished diced russia leather, decorated in blind and gilt, atlases in half binding with marbled paper sides matching the endpapers of the text volumes; all volumes neatly respined.

Cook's voyages: with the extra atlas, and uniform...

Paris: l'Honore & Chatelain, 1719.

Engraved map, with fine hand colouring, printed in four sheets joined, 860 x 1440 mm.; mounted and framed.

One of the most richly decorated world maps ever produced

Paris: circa 1795.

Engraved aquatint with original handcolouring, 440 x 530 mm. (sheet size), mounted and framed.

From ethnology to fashion

Brescia: Boninus de Boninis, 1483.

Small folio (302 x 198mm), 191 leaves (initial blank leaf discarded), with seven diagrams and a world map within the text; capital spaces blank; a fine, large copy in handsome Regency russia leather, sides richly tooled in gilt and blind with anthemion and scroll motifs...

Amsterdam: Joannes Wolters, 1707.

Folio, with a fine engraved title-page, parallel text in Greek and Latin in double columns; well-preserved contemporary vellum, spine elegantly lettered in ink with in gilt ornament between raised bands, covers ornately gilt with complex central emblematic device.

The best edition of Strabo's "colossal work"

Probably Venice: variously dated from 1795 to 1825.

Oblong small quarto album, 185 x 275mm, containing forty-six watercolours of various sizes and shapes ranging from delicate circular vignettes to larger scenes of urban and theatrical life, elegantly bound in nineteenth-century ochre morocco with ornate gilt decoration.

Fine Commedia dell'arte watercolours

Manchester: issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, "Lithographed by Palmer, Howe & Co., Manchester" 1890/1895/1898.

Three volumes, oblong folio, with 854 lithographic plates loose in the three original cloth portfolios, as issued, complete with the leaves of additional notes published respectively in 1892, 1895 and 1899;...

London: Published by J. Sowerby & Co, 1793.

Hand coloured engraved plate, 235 x 170mm, mounted and in a handsome nineteenth century timber frame.

The first engraved image of the magnificent waratah

[Sydney?]: circa 1840s.

Three ink caricatures on a single sheet of laid foolscap paper, 215 x 340 mm.

Unsigned caricature of three men in mid-century New South Wales

London: James Whittle & Richard Holmes Laurie, 1814.

Engraving on paper, 290 x 430 mm; a good, well-inked impression.

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